Israel War of Independence 3 photos – the religious company on the eve of the battle in Iraq El Manshiya

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Israel War of Independence 3 photos – the religious company on the eve of the battle in Iraq El Manshiya

The religious company (Company C) in the 33rd battalion (Bnei Ramat Gan, Givatayim, Bnei Brak, Borochov and Nachalat Yitzhak battalion) in the "Alexandroni" brigade in the months before and on the very eve of the battle in Iraq to Manashia (today Kiryat Gat) in the second candle of Hanukkah (December 28, 1948), in which eighty-nine of the best boys fell in one night, sixty-two of them the fighters of the aforementioned religious group. In the first photo, "Food transport to the control in Kola (near today's Elad) ... month of Elul 1948" (in the caption on the back of the photo) and in it the soldiers of the company during Operation "Danny" in the battles of the "Ten Days", July 1948. In the second photo, from that time, "We said the morning prayer on the Kola signs" in the original caption on the back of the photo in which the soldiers of the company are seen putting on tefillin. And in the third, the soldiers of the company On top of the truck in the photo "on the way to Khirbat Atallah" (original inscription on the back of the photo), is the battalion concentration point in the Fallujah pocket, near today's Kiryat Gat. A few days later, on December 28, 1948 as mentioned, right after the candle lighting ceremony! Get out! The company on a foot journey to the battlefield in Iraq El Manshiya, will meet its tragic fate.

6x9 cm. Very good/excellent condition